The last days of the rainbelt [electronic resource] / David J. Wishart.
2013
F595 .W77 2013eb
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The last days of the rainbelt [electronic resource] / David J. Wishart.
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9780803248540 (electronic book)
9780803246188
9780803246188
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Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2013.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xviii, 202 p.) : ill., maps.
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F595 .W77 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
978/.032
Summary
"A geographical history of eastern Colorado, western Kansas, and southwestern Nebraska during the 1890s drought"-- Provided by publisher.
Looking over the vast open plains of eastern Colorado, western Kansas, and southwestern Nebraska, where one can travel miles without seeing a town or even a house, it is hard to imagine the crowded landscape of the last decades of the nineteenth century. In those days farmers, speculators, and town builders flooded the region, believing that rain would follow the plow and that the "Rainbelt" would become their agricultural Eden. It took a mere decade for drought and economic turmoil to drive these dreaming thousands from the land, turning farmland back to rangeland and reducing settlements.
Looking over the vast open plains of eastern Colorado, western Kansas, and southwestern Nebraska, where one can travel miles without seeing a town or even a house, it is hard to imagine the crowded landscape of the last decades of the nineteenth century. In those days farmers, speculators, and town builders flooded the region, believing that rain would follow the plow and that the "Rainbelt" would become their agricultural Eden. It took a mere decade for drought and economic turmoil to drive these dreaming thousands from the land, turning farmland back to rangeland and reducing settlements.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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